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OSCE Chairman condemns terrorist attack in Chechnya
Publishing date: 10 May 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
ZAGREB, 10 May 2004- OSCE Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy strongly condemned Sunday's terrorist attack in Chechnya, in which Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and a number of other people were killed. He called the Grozny bomb blast "a vicious act of"...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office pledges closer co-operation with NATO
Publishing date: 21 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
BRUSSELS, 21 January 2004- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, pledged to strengthen co-operation with NATO at a meeting with the Alliance's new Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Wednesday...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office addresses U.S. Congressional Commission
Publishing date: 4 September 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
WASHINGTON, 4 September 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, discussed terrorism, human rights and regional security issues in the OSCE area in an address to members of the United States Congress...
OSCE Security Conference considers fresh options
Publishing date: 27 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, Forum for Security Co-operation, Permanent Council
VIENNA, 26 June 2003- The OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference closed yesterday with its main aim successfully met- that of identifying a range of practical options for the Organization to address the new threats and challenges to...
OSCE inaugurates Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna
Publishing date: 25 June 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Secretariat
VIENNA, 25 June 2003- Opening the OSCE's first-ever Annual Security Review Conference, Ambassador Daan Everts, Head of the OSCE Task Force of the Netherlands Chairmanship, called for the meeting to produce practical tasks and recommendations...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office expresses distress about violence in Chechnya
Publishing date: 15 May 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
THE HAGUE, 15 May 2003- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has written to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Igor Ivanov, to convey his distress about the recent acts of violence in the Russian...
OSCE CiO meets Russian Foreign Minister
Publishing date: 5 February 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
THE HAGUE, 5 February 2003- On 4 February 2003, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, met the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Igor S. Ivanov. "We discussed...